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Today I’m sharing the first of 3 birthday cards that I have already made using this card kit. It tried to stick to mostly what was included in the kit and use only a little bit of my supplies I already had on hand.

Here’s the card:

This was the quickest of all of the cards I made and I just made it up as I went along. I started with one of the beautiful patterned papers from the kit and ink blending the border and the flowers using a Judikins Color Duster. I used various yellow inks including the one hybrid ink that was in the kit along with some distress ink.

I layered that on top of some vellum and taped it down to the card front. I added some glass domes to the top left corner to finish it off. Glass domes are also sold by Pretty Pink Posh under the name Clear Droplets. Mine are just a little larger than theirs. I mounted the card front onto Simon Says Stamp Slate Cardstock that I turned into a card base by cutting it at 5.5″ and scoring it at 4.25″. If you haven’t used Simon Says Stamp Cardsstock before, I definitely recommend you give it a try. I was super happy with how heavy weight it was and it made me realize I’ve been making some very “light” card bases. It made it feel much nicer.

That’s it for today! I will be back really soon with another birthday card I made using this month’s Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. Thank you for stopping by!

This card was so quick and fun to make! I’ll be posting a YouTube Video showing exactly how to do it. Make sure you Subscribe to our Youtube channel so you can watch the video when it goes live on 12/26/15!

I went to the Rubber Stamp Events Convention yesterday with my mom. We now go every year together since she moved back to AZ. It was a nice time and I finally bought some things I was eyeballing last year. I did find a couple items on clearance, but of course, the main items I wanted were full price. Being that I still wanted them after all this time, I let myself purchase them.

Stampscapes are these awesome silhouette style stamps that are used to form landscape scenes. They are unique in the way they are designed because you don’t end up with harsh edges and it is easy to put together a truly organic scene. A major bonus is there are over 100 informational videos from Stampscapes on You Tube. I’ve been binge watching them since last night!
Here’s what you need to get started:

As you can see, one of those stamps is not by Stampscapes, but I figured it would work pretty well. I also found a life-like Victorian House stamp when I was digging around in my craft room that I figured should work.

My first try at stamping the scene, I put the mountains in the completely wrong spot. You can see that on the left sheet.

The second time I stamped, I got it right. You will need to do some simple masking along the way. I used just a paper towel. Which I then also accidentally smudged ink with that same paper towel in the sky and proceeded to try to make that accident look like it was on purpose. Not too happy that happened!

My coloring and blending skills could definitely use some work. I used the gel pen to add highlights, waves, and tried to make a foggy light coming from the light source in the background. I might continue to blend this, but it was almost midnight and I had already been working on it for a while. You MUST have patience when blending or you will end up with ruined foam pieces or harsh lines. Light pressure and continued strokes is key.

Here’s my end product. If I do this same scene again, I will make the Victorian a light grey and probably do the same for the mountains. I was playing downstairs and only brought a few inks down. My laziness of not wanting to go up to the craft room resulted in less than desired results. However, it was still a TON OF FUN and I will definitely be making more of these and turning them into Christmas cards :-)!!

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